The first branch library in the Minneapolis Public Library system was built in 1893-1894 and is one...
Twin Cities Area
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Swinford Apartments
The Swinford Apartments were built overlooking pretty Hawthorne Park in 1897. The four-story...
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Saint Paul Hotel
District #28 School in Ramsey
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Eight Days in May Protests
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Swinford Townhomes
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Robbinsdale Library
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Landmark Center In St Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Wilder Public Baths
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Greater Minnesota
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Sometimes there isn’t much to look at when I’m out exploring and driving from place to...
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Beaver Bay is the oldest white settlement along the North Shore of Lake Superior. It was...
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
Red Wing Iron Works
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
The End of the Line in Currie
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Duluth’s Incline Railway
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Daniel Piper House in Medford
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
The Almelund Creamery
Jordan Brewery Complex
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Remembering Quadna Resort
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Visiting Golden Gate
Welcome To Old Wadena
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Exploring Ottawa
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Lost Highway 61
District 6 School in New Sweden
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Green Lake Mounds
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Welcome To Dotson
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Little Marais Inn
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Historic Franconia
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Little Falls Depot
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
The Duluth Homestead Project
Exploring Sandstone
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Hanover Bridge
Hollywood Town Hall
Enter Marlon Brando
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Welcome to Hanska
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Old Brewery In Preston
Moving Old Hibbing
Historic Wasioja
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Oxford Mill Ruin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
The Le Sueur Theater
Bend in the River Regional Park
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Florence Town Hall
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Meyer School In St Augusta
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Endion Depot In Duluth
The Old School In Wolverton
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
District 48 School Near Delano
Ruins of Sawyer School
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Milford Monument
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
The Church of the Holy Cross
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Welcome To Cobden
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Maple Hill Cemetery
Dedicated in 1857, the rolling slopes of Maple Hill became the final resting place of early...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Golden Gate Cemetery
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
A new dawn of mechanical advancement was brought to the forefront of American consciousness because...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Roadtrips
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
“Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the big woods of Wisconsin, in a little...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Discovering Wisconsin Point
Winter At The Lamar School
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
Watts Free Library In Leonard
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Welcome to Heaton
Article Archive
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Carnegie Library In Watertown